A woman was forced to strip off in Nice by police officers armed with pepper spray and batons . Four officers stood
over her as she removed a garment protecting her modesty. She was then fined 38 euros.The former air hostess, whose family members have been French citizens for at least three generations, said:
“I wasn’t even planning to swim, just to dip my feet.”
Nice is one of several towns in France which have imposed a ban on burkinis and similar Muslim-style clothes on beaches.
The woman is then ordered to remove the blue garment. Most of the other people on the beach on a sweltering summer’s day were wearing trunks or bikinis.
Nice and Cannes are among several French towns to have introduced a 38 euro (£32) fine.
Another young Muslim mother was ordered off the beach at Cannes and fined for simply wearing a headscarf.
Three armed officers pointed a pepper spray canister in the 34-year-old’s face and told her she was in breach of a new rule outlawing swimming costumes that cover the entire body.
She said the ‘racist’ officers simply wanted to humiliate her in front of her children and other family members, even though she was not even wearing a burkini.
It was the latest in a series of incidents in the south of France and comes after video emerged of armed police waiting for Muslim women to come out of the sea at nearby Nice, and then warning them about their choice of headscarves.
And just days ago, four women were fined 38 euros for wearing their burkinis on the beach in Cannes.
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